Chen (Cilva) Chen - Landscape Architecture Portfolio 2022

CILVA CHEN

CILVA.CCHEN@GMAIL.COM LINKEDIN.COM/IN/DOUBLECHENLA

EDUCATION

Cornell University | 2020 - 2022

Pennsylvania State University 2016 - 2020

Akademie für internationale Bildung | 2020

The Udzungwa Ecological Monitoring Centre 2019

SKILLS

PROJECTS

The Sound of Silence Inclusive Design Methods Research

Sustained Change | Carbon Sequestration Methods Research

Cornell Orchard Student Center | Cornell Orchard

Urban Megastructure Study | Cross Bronx Expressway

Fuzzy Forest | Floodplain biophilic city

Sunset Sundial | Les Tres Xemeneies

Level-4 Autonomous Driving Future The East Kapolei Neighborhood TOD Plan

Waterfront Promenade River Rhine

Darley Park Reactivation

Long View Bookstore GAD line+ studio rural revitalization

Human and Conservation Conflict Study Udzungwa Mountains National Park

MEET-house | Slaughterhouse design

Oak Road Meadow Park Department of Physical Plants

Residential Community Development North Atherton Community

Spring Creek Watershed Study GIS Inventory And Suitability Analysis

Bartram’s Garden Waterfront Design

Talleyrand Park Waterfront Revitalization Plan

2018 Pingyang County Government Square

AWARDS

ASLA Student Honor Award

College Creative Achievement Award | Collage of Arts and Architecture

Award Of Excellence Department of Landscape Architecture

Award Of Excellence Department of Landscape Architecture

EXPERIENCES

Master of Landscape Architecture

Bachelor of Landscape Architecture

Education Abroad

Education Abroad

Adobe Creative Suite, Microsoft Office, ArcGIS, AutoCAD, SketchUp, Rhino, Vray, Lumion, Laser Cut, Figma, Miro

Graphic Communication, Reasearch, Sketch, Photography, Graphic Design, Website/App Design, Translation

DESIGN

SKILLS

Research Assistance | Prof. Maria Goula

Teaching Assistance Prof. Josh Cerra

CU ASLA Graduate Secretary

LABash Planning Committee | ASLA Liaison Support

Landscape Architect Assistant GAD· Line+ Studio

Landscape Designer Pingyang County Planning Construction Survey and Design Institute Co.,Ltd.

Palmer Student Ambassador | Palmer Museum of Art

Los Angeles

Erie Canal Heritage Corridor

Ithaca

Bronx

Owego

Sant Adrià de Besòs, Spain

Hawaii

Bonn, Germany Mang’ula, Tanzania

Baltimore Deqing, China

Mang’ula A, Tanzania

State College

State College

State College

Philadelphia

Bellefonte

Wenzhou, China

PA-DE ASLA

State

State

TIMOTHY BAIRD

ctb97@cornell.edu

Department Chair, Professor, Landscape Architecture, Cornell University

JOSHUA CERRA

jfc299@cornell.edu

Associate Professor, Landscape Architecture, Cornell University

MARIA GOULA

mg987@cornell.edu

Associate Professor, Landscape Architecture, Cornell University

ANNE WEBER

alw297@cornell.edu

Assistant Professor, Landscape Architecture, Cornell University

SHANGYANG LI

79388252@qq.com

Associate Landscape Designer, GAD· Line+ Studio

FUZZY FOREST | VILLAGE OF OWEGO

SUNSET SUNDIAL LES TRES XEMENEIES

MEET-HOUSE | SLAUGHTERHOUSE

CORNELL ORCHARD STUDENT CENTER

OAK ROAD MEADOW PARK

Construction Document

LONG VIEW BOOKSTORE

Internship | Rural Revitalization

Technical Planting Plan, Schedules & Notes for Oak Road Park, assigned by the Office of Physical Plant (OPP) Analytical drawings and business writing of central phase of the Mogan Valley project for competition and public promotion

FUZZY FOREST | BIOPHILIC CITY

In December 2020, the Village of Owego declares a State of Emergency amid flooding. The study site situates in the Upper Susquehanna River Basin with recurring major floods dating back to 1936. Huntington Creek on the northern edge is constrained by intensive land development, deforestation, and long-term clearance for agriculture, resulting in a sunken bed level of the upland watershed. Emerging challengesdeclined population, damaged property, and wild animals & plants sprawling back into the concrete jungle - confront local businesses and households with a reflection on the vulnerability of linear urbanization under climate crisis.

Fussy Forest evokes a discussion on adaptive urban design to the climate crisis. This project proposes to mitigate environmental stressors

through biophilic measures, by integrating natural successions into the modern built structure. It reassesses streets, buildings, and built infrastructures across the urban space. Aiming to establish a self-sustaining ecological system at a variety of interfaces, the design programming is organized into four stages: 1) Stand initiation, 2) Stem exclusion, 3) Understory reinitiation, and ultimately 4) Dynamic-steady state: Messy forest. Its performances involve two key aspects: Carbon sequestration & Runoff mitigation for which four pioneer plants with high adaptability to floodplains are selected carefully. In supplement, this project reframed entire vertical circulations combined with blue/green roof and underground drainage to control the carbon emissions of households and maintain the sustainability of the micro habitats.

Owego Village, NY Instructor: Jamie Vanucchi Spring 2021

KEYSTONE SPECIES

Silver Maple Green Ash American Sycamore Eastern Cottonwood Acer saccharinum Fraxinus pennsylvanica Platanus occidentalis Populus deltoides

PO FP AS PD

▼ Carbon sequestration (lbs)

▼ Rainfall interception (gal)

TOP LEFT Emergency shelter

TOP MID Intersection

TOP RIGHT Vertical accessibility

LEFT Unit Public Space

VERTICAL STREET Model display

SUNSET SUNDIAL | LES TRES XEMENEIES

The three chimneys (3X) is the historical landmark of Sant Adrià de Besòs considered to be the last remaining piece of the Besòs river’s coastal line to be urbanized. The 200-meter tall chimney towers of this thermal plant contributed to a controversial sillouette since Catalan energy company FESCA’s proposal in 1971 till its shut down in 2011. As an icon of the Barcelona skyline, 3X shoulders the responsibility of redefining the relationship between Barcelona, Sant Adrià de Besòs and Badalona in all its complexity. Since Barcelona has been recognized as a tourist city in 2017, evolving tourist practices cast their impact on the urban fabric, mobility and economic activities that to a degree, compromises with everyday life in the city and its surrounding.

This design interprets deindustrialized 3X as a historical debt born from the neighborhood debates to be transformed in to a unique Memoryscape of the relic of the Barcelona’s industrial history. The preservation of the three chimneys challenges to reify the social and collective benefits from its symbolic importance of being an “unwanted but ultimately accepted” landscape that requires designers to adaptively reuse this industrial remnant.

Sunset Sundial project allows rethinking the uses and activities of the area to promote it as a great neighborhood space connected with nature. With the expansion of high-density settlement from central Barcelona to outlying agricultural areas,

new functional public spaces and social spaces dominated by natural landscapes becomes a predictable necessity. This proposal return itself to the ethical individual and residential communities in local, taking into account the plurality of voices and needs, in pursuit of constructing a community-centered public space to be experienced from the inside.

The Sunset Sundial project envisioned 3X to be a public museum & commercial attractor, with the intention of connecting and visualizing the memory of the Sant Adrià de Besòs community through Time and Materiality. The curved walkway as the core guesture of the design, recycles metal and concrete from undismentaled remant; the architecture and the Pier deck retain their original footprints of the factory. 3X’s chimney stands in an essential position in the Barcelona skyline, and its projection, although often overlooked in the preunderstanding of this landmark, creates shadowed spaces that speak to the group or individual through time: A space of dialogue. The oval plaza and bridged corridor combine into a dial on which individual shaded niches form and incorporate gatherings and activities at different times of day, such as walking gods, into the public open space. In this place of collective action and reflection, the cultural landscape is embodied through inscriptions and art in seats, fences, and open Graffiti walls, that convey the lessons of history and place.

Decommissioned thermal power plant revitalization Sant Adrià de Besòs, Barcelona, Spain

Instructor: Maria Goula

Fall 2020

ABANDONED INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX

Sant Adrià de Besòs Barcelona

When the construction of the emblematic plant was begun by Catalan energy company FESCA in 1971, the project was passionately opposed on environmental and aesthetic grounds by both the Ajuntament and the community associations of Badalona and Sant Adriá.

The southern region continues to depend on Sant Adria de Besos

The large growth of Barcelona after the civil war Plan for the Eradication of shanties

CONTROVERSY ARGUMENT

Argument over the future of the plant among the initial stands of stakeholders: A

When workers building the station in 1973 went on strike in a bid for better working conditions, the police responded with lethal force, killing an employee of the COPISA.

Repeated spewing of llùvia negra (black rain) and pollution of the sea-shore led to hefty sanctions from the local government, criticism in the media and angry protests in the local community.

Under increasing pressure from the government and environmental organizations, FECSA (now called FECSA-ENDESA) decided to gradually shut down the plant and replace it with a more efficient Combined Cycle Plant the Besòs V power station, which today stands on the other side of the river.

The Ajuntament de Sant Adriá reacted. By declaring the site Bien Cultural de Local Interes, it forced ENDESA to leave the turbine room and the concrete skeleton of the three towers intact. The dispute carried on.

A public statement of ENDESA gave over the old plant to the Ajuntament de Sant Adriá (local council).

The Coastal Front Council created in 2016. Citizen participation sessions will be open to members of it.

Pla director urbanístic (PDU) de les Tres Xemeneies

“The maximum political and citizen consensus in the reorganization of the space of the Three Chimneys that allows to promote a space of innovation and socio-economic development of Sant Adrià and of all its area of influence”.

Gain quality public spaces and facilities and generate improvements in terms of mobility and connectivity between two neighboring cities.

MEET-HOUSE | SLAUGHTERHOUSE REDESIGN

Udzungwa Ecological Monitoring Centre (UEMC)

Instructor:

The slaughterhouse in Mang’ula A left me with an indelible impression when our study abroad team visited Tanzania in Summer 2019. Two small, rusted outbuildings stood there with piles of animal skin and dry animal waste scattered about. Feral dogs fought for the remaining meats on the skins; flies circled over undried rivulets of blood.

The site sustains the meat process for nearby five villages. Meat and by-products make up to a major portion of protein supply as well as household income before the harvesting season. Currently unregulated disposal such as animal skin not only contaminate surrounding land but also wastes potential income from recycled materials.

Due to its negative impact on food security and the regional environment, I volunteered in responded to local residents’ requests for improvement and spent 3 weeks living and communicating with local villagers to learn their food traditions, treatment methods, and relevant religious belief.

The slaughterhouse is always reviled and isolated for its only function is to kill, but it also plays as a landmark in the history of modernity that documents the reality of food. The Meat-ting Ground aims to explore the socioeconomic significance of the site. This project prioritizes a cleaning and recycling system based on existing facilities. And by differentiating movement trail between butchers, waste and common visitors, it embodies didactic hierarchy in the spatial sequence to encourage communication and exchange. The design goal wants to convert the slaughterhouse into a new commercial center.

Mang’ula A, Tanzania

Larry Gorenflo, Carter Hunt Summer 2019

FOOD CHALLENGE

Red meat, especially ‘nyama kawaida’ (undifferentiated meat) makes up to a significant portion of food intake for poor rural and urban households. Rural herders have limited access to markets and a majority of meat product is subsistence-oriented. Meat consumption rises between the sowing season and the harvesting season as a supplement of crops and fruits in dietary.

Because of the remote location of the slaughterhouse and limited transportation methods, producers often have to trek their animals over long distances or adopting a variety of stratagems to get animals to the slaughterhouse or to the markets. Lack of refrigerated lorry capacity for meat restrict meat trading within nearby villages. Sanitation and food preservation on Mangula’A Slaughterhouse becomes a crucial concern for nearby villages.

IN WASTE

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LIMITED ACCESSIBILITY

In the 2009 National Panel Survey, food expenditure makes up nearly two thirds of total rural household expenditure. Demand for livestock products (Meat, Poultry, Dairy, Eggs) contributes 13% to total household expenditures and about 1/5 to the value of total food consumption.

The slaughterhouse in Mang’ula A is an important meat processing facility for local homeowners. Herders brings about 10 livestock per day (in annual average) for processing; rural women will also come early in the morning for cheaper meat or animal byproducts.

Prior to the closure due to COVID-19, more than a 1,000 schoolchildren visit the Cornell Orchard each fall to taste apples, see how cider is made, and learn where fruit comes from. Hundreds of visitors, including fruit growers and professionals from local wineries and cideries, visit the Orchards each year for special events. Climate changes are casting far-reaching effects on agricultural systems and human forces in every city. Many New York fruit farmers are not subjected to the COVID-19 pandemic but to the dramatic loss of human forces on their already heavy workloads; new labor law has put agriculture in a tenuous position.

Cornell Orchard Student Center aims to reactivate the Orchard after reopening. This project constructs a close dialogue with the existing Cornell Orchard Laboratory, respecting its research projects, living laboratory, and fruit production. This project uncovers the potential

CORNELL ORCHARD STUDENT CENTER

of Digital Agriculture at an academia setting, in exploration of the application of precision management & automation technologies in orchard management. This project - by taking the advantage of the collaborative expertise of researchers across Cornell – aims to establish a system with emerging technology critical to modern agriculture.

The design will decipher each step of land management, seek human-less alternatives, and visualize the processes into easily approachable languages for guest workers and local communities. Experimenting with visualization at Cornell Orchard sets the groundwork for catalyzing virtual technologies in the future of orchard management. Current challenges could be an opportunity to reconsider food production modes in apple orchards across the New York States.

Cornell Orchard, Ithaca, New York Instructor: Anne Weber Spring 2022

CORNELL COOPERATIVE EXTENSION

THOMPSON RESEARCH FARM BLUEGRASS LANE CORNELL ORCHARD

NON-TILL / GRAZING COVER CROPS

BENEFICIAL FLORA

HA-HA WALL DEER-REPELLING PLANTS

Take advantage of pre-existing steep slope to create a visuallypermeable edge, benefiting birds and other preferred animals

ORCHARD ENTRY

Entry space with parking, renavigates publicity & privacy

Semi-public space with rock-base, seating and pebble ground, planted with living mulch covering the orchard, this space show changes of orchard overtime

ORCHARD PLAZA

Indoor educational space for lecture, conference, and staff meeting with an open space for equipment training

TEACHING EXTENSION

A sheltered teaching area with a view to the entire orchard, applicable for exhibition, events, and public activities

ORCHARD FORUM

OAK ROAD MEADOW PARK

Technical Planting Plan, Schedules & Notes

Oak Road, State College, Pennsylvania

Department of Physical Plants

Spring 2019

This project involved preparation of a technical, AutoCAD-generated Contract Document (CD) set for the meadow complex along Oak Road that the Office of Physical Plant (OPP) plans to implement in the Spring of 2020.

Designed meadows paid detailed attention to mini-grassland ecosystems, with grasses serving as the matrix, or “backbone”. It builds on a meadow concept and palette of custom mixes tied to the distinct meadow zones; each of them required different establishment and management approaches delineated using AutoCAD line work, textures/hatches, and labels.

Forb plugs are required to augment seeding so as to achieve first- and second-year floral accents in key, high-profile areas, or in aesthetically strategic “drifts” near high-visibility areas (including those areas visually accessible from University Drive). Seed percentages mix contains 70-80% PLS (pure live seed) of graminoides and 20-30% PLS being forb seeds. The Notes of CD set include instructions to the Contractor regarding soil preparation prior to seeding and plugging, seed and plug quality, timing of planting/ seeding, installation techniques, immediate care for the new meadow ecosystem, and longer term monitoring and management.

This CD communicated an adaptive management approach allowing for 4-5 years of monitoring and adjusting for warm-season meadow as well as 2-3 years of monitoring for cool-season meadows and rain meadow.

LONG VIEW BOOKSTORE

Deqing, Zhejiang Province

GAD Line+ Studio

Client: Sunac Southeast Regional Group 2018

The Mogan Valley project is situated at the eastern foot of Mogan Mountain, which is one of the most famous summer resorts in China. Architects and landscape designers coincide with fully opening the bookbar, the central culture and social space, towards the hillside farmland, blending the internal and external boundaries. Local materials like rubbles and tall perennial grasses are used for construction, to consolidate the soil on slope, form a spatial sequence of communication between human and nature, and retain the unique texture of the village.

(Writing published: https://mooool.com/en/long-view-book-store-gad-line-studio.html)

Photo credit: Jianzhi Photography Line+ photography

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